Eastern Guilford dials in to win share of conference baseball title

Published: Sunday, May 4, 2014 at 12:18 AM.

GIBSONVILLE — The Eastern Guilford baseball team put on blinders for the final week of its regular season.

In the process, the Wildcats seemed to regain their footing with three victories, the last which came in a 12-2 result against visiting Eden Morehead on Saturday afternoon.

That latest victory — concluding in the sixth inning because of the mercy rule — created a three-way tie for the Mid-State 3-A Conference championship with Northern Guilford and Western Alamance.

“From the beginning of the season to the middle, we started out real hot. We’ve kind of let off now, but we’re getting back into it,” sophomore Andrew Robinson said. “It’s definitely a big improvement from where we had been two weeks ago. We’re picking it back up just in time for playoffs.”

By tiebreakers of how each team finished against the next closest teams in the league standings, Northern Guilford takes the top seed into this week’s conference tournament. Eastern Guilford is second and Western Alamance is third.

The Wildcats (17-6 overall, 12-4 Mid-State 3-A Conference) take momentum on the strength of outscoring opponents 30-2 in its last three games.

“We knew coming in that we had to play three good ballgames against three good clubs. Fortunate to get three wins this week,” Eastern Guilford coach Jay White said.

A night after scoring eight runs on five hits to beat Rockingham County, Eastern Guilford belted out eight runs on six hits in the second inning of Saturday’s game.

Two walks and a hit batter loaded the bases to start the inning, then the Wildcats rolled off five straight hits. The first three — an RBI single by Addison Benton, a two-run double by Robinson and a two-run single by Jacob Finerty — all seemed to land in the same spot in the left-center field gap.

Caleb Robinson tacked on an RBI double and Jordan Rohrer drove in a run with a single for the inning’s final run. Eastern Guilford surged again in the third inning with Hunter Ballard’s two-run double off the fence in left field and Stefan Greeson added an RBI single.

“Feeling good (going into the conference tournament), feel like the bats are coming back,” Andrew Robinson said. “Our pitching and defense are getting there, we’ll be good.”

And there was an added bonus for Saturday’s victory.

“All the more special for these guys, they get to go get their tux on and go to prom (Saturday) night,” White said. “We talked about putting ourselves in a position to win a conference and then celebrating it all night.”

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GIBSONVILLE — The Eastern Guilford baseball team put on blinders for the final week of its regular season.

In the process, the Wildcats seemed to regain their footing with three victories, the last which came in a 12-2 result against visiting Eden Morehead on Saturday afternoon.

That latest victory — concluding in the sixth inning because of the mercy rule — created a three-way tie for the Mid-State 3-A Conference championship with Northern Guilford and Western Alamance.

“From the beginning of the season to the middle, we started out real hot. We’ve kind of let off now, but we’re getting back into it,” sophomore Andrew Robinson said. “It’s definitely a big improvement from where we had been two weeks ago. We’re picking it back up just in time for playoffs.”

By tiebreakers of how each team finished against the next closest teams in the league standings, Northern Guilford takes the top seed into this week’s conference tournament. Eastern Guilford is second and Western Alamance is third.

The Wildcats (17-6 overall, 12-4 Mid-State 3-A Conference) take momentum on the strength of outscoring opponents 30-2 in its last three games.

“We knew coming in that we had to play three good ballgames against three good clubs. Fortunate to get three wins this week,” Eastern Guilford coach Jay White said.

A night after scoring eight runs on five hits to beat Rockingham County, Eastern Guilford belted out eight runs on six hits in the second inning of Saturday’s game.

Two walks and a hit batter loaded the bases to start the inning, then the Wildcats rolled off five straight hits. The first three — an RBI single by Addison Benton, a two-run double by Robinson and a two-run single by Jacob Finerty — all seemed to land in the same spot in the left-center field gap.

Caleb Robinson tacked on an RBI double and Jordan Rohrer drove in a run with a single for the inning’s final run. Eastern Guilford surged again in the third inning with Hunter Ballard’s two-run double off the fence in left field and Stefan Greeson added an RBI single.

“Feeling good (going into the conference tournament), feel like the bats are coming back,” Andrew Robinson said. “Our pitching and defense are getting there, we’ll be good.”

And there was an added bonus for Saturday’s victory.

“All the more special for these guys, they get to go get their tux on and go to prom (Saturday) night,” White said. “We talked about putting ourselves in a position to win a conference and then celebrating it all night.”